Jackie Robinson Quotes

In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

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• Actually, I had no idea what shooting hoops was or were. I thought dunking was something you did with a beignet and a cup of steaming coffee. I wasn't exactly sure what a Knick was.

  

  Hamish Bowles
  • Thought
  • Idea
  • Coffee

• When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a red flag. You wonder why they ain't going up in our neighborhood. Bottom line, what I see, I talk about... I see it over and over. If anybody can show me I'm wrong, then show me.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Up
  • Why
  • Wonder

• What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Years
  • Better
  • Consistency

• Diving has been in the game for years. Probably the coverage the game gets now, with all the cameras around, it gets highlighted a bit more. But it hasn't got any worse.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Game
  • Years
  • Now

• When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.

  

  Yoshio Taniguchi
  • Years
  • Last
  • Buildings

• When the idea of 'Chopped' surfaced, it was originally meant to be taped at some guy's mansion with him and his crazy Chihuahua. A stuffy fellow in a tuxedo was to host, and the losing chef's dish was then fed to the dog! I am not kidding, I saw it! I think it is genius! Twisted, but genius!

  

  Ted Allen
  • Idea
  • Genius
  • Twisted

• My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Life
  • Baseball
  • My Life

• I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Pretty
  • Like
  • Idea

• I have a whole closet in my house that's dedicated just to jackets and coats, stuff that I've collected over the years.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • House
  • Years
  • Over

• I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.

  

  Usher
  • Music
  • Way
  • Idea

• Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008.

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • Years
  • Year
  • Donated

• I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Up
  • Player
  • Years

• Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Why
  • Job
  • Guy

• The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret – that's really distasteful to me.

  

  Dan Farmer
  • Idea
  • Secret
  • Normal

• I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Think
  • Nice
  • Years

• I would rather do twenty TV series than go through what I went through under that Rank contract I signed a few years ago for which I blame no one but myself.

  

  Patrick McGoohan
  • Myself
  • Years
  • Blame

• For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Life
  • Years
  • Insurance

• I'm an old-school, embarrassing Joni Mitchell fan. Her music made a hook in my soul and hasn't let go for all these years. I even sing her songs as lullabies to my kids.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Music
  • School
  • Kids

• I love the flow of the game. There's a certain fluidity to basketball. I don't enjoy watching baseball or football in the same way.

  

  Adam Yauch The Beastie Boys
  • Game
  • Football
  • Baseball

• I love to eat a lot, but I try to eat healthy stuff. Especially when you're riding, sometimes I get hooked up with the cycling and when you're riding three, four, five hours, then you can put whatever you want in your body.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Want
  • Body
  • Healthy

• Anything that I do, I try to make it as good as I possibly can.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • Good
  • Try
  • Make

• A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit, as a rude friend is to protect.

  

  Bryant H. McGill
  • Friend
  • Enemy
  • Rude

• You can curl up in the fetal position and try to wish away all the things that need doing, or you can get started on that uphill battle to reclaim your life. The difficulty isn’t what choice to make, because that part is obvious. The difficulty lies in finding the energy and inspiration to make the right choice.

  

  Noel Fisher
  • Inspiration
  • Choice
  • Difficulty

• In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Years
  • Baseball
  • Idea